Did he know what was expected....

And did he do it? I'm a stickler for personal responsibility, owning our mistakes and not making excuses. We ALL fail, but sometimes there are consequences. If they made an exception this time, it would require exceptions in the future for the sake of fairness and eventually the standard becomes lax and then where is the pride of making it through the training? If SEAL training were easy, who would be proud of being a seal? If Sentinal training were easy or lax, where is the respect that soldier deserves. I'm glad there are standards and I detest and despise this culture that wants so desperately to muddy the waters between black and white, wrong and right, and pretend there are no absolutes.